Dennis W. Evans: Which party is more supportive of blacks?

5:31 PM,
Feb. 14, 2013

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Dennis W. Evans

Which party fought to keep black people in slavery, was the favorite of the Klu Klux Klan and from 1870 to 1930, used fraud, whippings, lynching, murders, intimidation and mutilations to deny black citizens their right to vote?

Which party passed the Black Codes and Jim Crowe laws (legalizing racial discrimination)? What was the party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman (both rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent civil rights commission)?

This is the same party of Lyndon Johnson (who called the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "that (N-word) preacher" ...